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Railways Gives Compensation To 36 Elphinstone Bridge Stampede Victims
The Railway Claims Tribunal, Mumbai, today awarded compensation to 36 victims, which included 17 death and 19 injury cases, of the Elphinstone foot overbridge stampede, the railways said on Tuesday.
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New Elphinstone Foot Overbridge Opens For Public. All Details Here
Elphinstone foot overbridge at the Western Railways and two other foot overbridges at the Central line - Ambivali and Currey Road - were thrown open to public today. The three foot overbidges have been built by the Indian Army.
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Railways Used To Build Tanks For Army, Which Is Now Building Its Bridges
It was the end of an illustrious legacy yesterday. Once, the Indian Railways used to manufacture war tanks, hand grenades, shells, etc, in its workshops. Yesterday's decision by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal turned the tradition around. The Army's help has been sought to finish railways' job - building three foot overbridges, one each at Elphinston...
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'Will Army Fill Potholes Too?' Mumbai Bridge-Building Plan Criticised
The Army will help build a new bridge at Mumbai's Elphinstone Road train station, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced today as union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal visited the site where 23 were killed in a rush hour stampede a month ago.
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Parliamentary Panel Summons Top Railway Officials After Recent Accidents
A parliamentary panel has summoned top railway officials over the recent spate of rail derailments and the Elphinstone Road Bridge stampede in Mumbai.
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Congress, NCP Claim Maharashtra Government Colluded With MNS For Evicting Hawkers
The Congress and the NCP slammed the MNS for forcibly evicting illegal hawkers from a railway bridge and claimed that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is "hand-in-gloves" with the Raj Thackeray-led party.
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Woman Hurt As Tile Of Elphinstone Road Foot Overbridge Falls On Her Head
A woman passenger was injured at suburban Elphinstone Road railway station today when part of a tile of a Foot Overbridge (FoB) fell on her on head while she was entering the premises, an official said.
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Rain Blamed For Mumbai Stampede, But Rail Officials Not Off The Hook Yet
Rain and rumours have been blamed for the stampede at a Mumbai railway bridge that killed 23 people last month. But railway officials who took 18 months to call for bids to build the new foot over-bridge at Elphinstone station may not be off the hook yet.
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'Phool' And 'Pul' (Bridge) Mix-Up Triggered Mumbai Stampede, Says Survivor
The deadly stampede that killed 23 people and left over 30 injured in Mumbai on Friday may have been triggered by the most unfortunate of mix-ups. A flower vendor's cry of "phool gir gaya (flowers have fallen)" being mistaken as "pul gir gaya (the bridge has fallen)" might have caused the panic on a bridge linking two suburban train stations, a sur...
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Like Notes Ban, Bullet Train Will Kill Everything: P Chidambaram's Jibe At PM Modi
The day after 22 commuters died in a stampede at Mumbai's Elphinstone station bridge, Congress leader P Chidambaram scaled up the attack on the bullet train project, saying the high-speed train would, like demonetisation, "kill everything else including safety".
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Money For Bullet Train, Not A Mumbai Bridge: Shiv Sena's Sharp Attack
BJP ally Shiv Sena joined the opposition to launch a scathing attack on the railway ministry for the rush-hour stampede that killed 22 commuters in Mumbai today, saying the central government didn't have money to spend on a bridge used by poor commuters but "gave Rs 30,000 crores in one day" for the bullet trains.
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After Deadly Elphinstone Stampede, Tender Floated For Additional Foot Overbridge
The railways today floated a tender for an additional foot-over-bridge (FOB) at Elphinstone station in Mumbai where 22 people were killed during a stampede on the existing decades-old bridge, senior officials said.
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Elphinstone Stampede: 'Shocking, Shameful,' Tweet Anil Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha And Others
Over 20 people were killed and 30 got seriously injured in the stampede in Mumbai's Parel-Elphinstone Road stations
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'When A Mob Panics, You Can't Think': Survivor On Mumbai Stampede
A Mumbai commuter who survived the stampede that killed 22 this morning, describes how she kept herself calm amid "panic and chaos and an insane crowd" on a railway bridge at Elphinstone station after just a 20-minute rain. When she somehow managed to come out, she saw bodies.
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Mumbai Stampede After 4 Trains Came At Same Time, Says Official: 10 Facts
22 people have been killed and over 30 seriously injured in a stampede that broke out in Mumbai this morning during peak office hours on a bridge linking two suburban train stations. The incident took place at around 10:30 am on the foot over-bridge linking Elphinstone Road and Parel suburban stations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took note of the...
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Railways Gives Compensation To 36 Elphinstone Bridge Stampede Victims
The Railway Claims Tribunal, Mumbai, today awarded compensation to 36 victims, which included 17 death and 19 injury cases, of the Elphinstone foot overbridge stampede, the railways said on Tuesday.
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New Elphinstone Foot Overbridge Opens For Public. All Details Here
Elphinstone foot overbridge at the Western Railways and two other foot overbridges at the Central line - Ambivali and Currey Road - were thrown open to public today. The three foot overbidges have been built by the Indian Army.
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Railways Used To Build Tanks For Army, Which Is Now Building Its Bridges
It was the end of an illustrious legacy yesterday. Once, the Indian Railways used to manufacture war tanks, hand grenades, shells, etc, in its workshops. Yesterday's decision by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal turned the tradition around. The Army's help has been sought to finish railways' job - building three foot overbridges, one each at Elphinston...
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'Will Army Fill Potholes Too?' Mumbai Bridge-Building Plan Criticised
The Army will help build a new bridge at Mumbai's Elphinstone Road train station, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced today as union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal visited the site where 23 were killed in a rush hour stampede a month ago.
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Parliamentary Panel Summons Top Railway Officials After Recent Accidents
A parliamentary panel has summoned top railway officials over the recent spate of rail derailments and the Elphinstone Road Bridge stampede in Mumbai.
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Congress, NCP Claim Maharashtra Government Colluded With MNS For Evicting Hawkers
The Congress and the NCP slammed the MNS for forcibly evicting illegal hawkers from a railway bridge and claimed that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is "hand-in-gloves" with the Raj Thackeray-led party.
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Woman Hurt As Tile Of Elphinstone Road Foot Overbridge Falls On Her Head
A woman passenger was injured at suburban Elphinstone Road railway station today when part of a tile of a Foot Overbridge (FoB) fell on her on head while she was entering the premises, an official said.
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Rain Blamed For Mumbai Stampede, But Rail Officials Not Off The Hook Yet
Rain and rumours have been blamed for the stampede at a Mumbai railway bridge that killed 23 people last month. But railway officials who took 18 months to call for bids to build the new foot over-bridge at Elphinstone station may not be off the hook yet.
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'Phool' And 'Pul' (Bridge) Mix-Up Triggered Mumbai Stampede, Says Survivor
The deadly stampede that killed 23 people and left over 30 injured in Mumbai on Friday may have been triggered by the most unfortunate of mix-ups. A flower vendor's cry of "phool gir gaya (flowers have fallen)" being mistaken as "pul gir gaya (the bridge has fallen)" might have caused the panic on a bridge linking two suburban train stations, a sur...
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Like Notes Ban, Bullet Train Will Kill Everything: P Chidambaram's Jibe At PM Modi
The day after 22 commuters died in a stampede at Mumbai's Elphinstone station bridge, Congress leader P Chidambaram scaled up the attack on the bullet train project, saying the high-speed train would, like demonetisation, "kill everything else including safety".
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Money For Bullet Train, Not A Mumbai Bridge: Shiv Sena's Sharp Attack
BJP ally Shiv Sena joined the opposition to launch a scathing attack on the railway ministry for the rush-hour stampede that killed 22 commuters in Mumbai today, saying the central government didn't have money to spend on a bridge used by poor commuters but "gave Rs 30,000 crores in one day" for the bullet trains.
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After Deadly Elphinstone Stampede, Tender Floated For Additional Foot Overbridge
The railways today floated a tender for an additional foot-over-bridge (FOB) at Elphinstone station in Mumbai where 22 people were killed during a stampede on the existing decades-old bridge, senior officials said.
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Elphinstone Stampede: 'Shocking, Shameful,' Tweet Anil Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha And Others
Over 20 people were killed and 30 got seriously injured in the stampede in Mumbai's Parel-Elphinstone Road stations
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'When A Mob Panics, You Can't Think': Survivor On Mumbai Stampede
A Mumbai commuter who survived the stampede that killed 22 this morning, describes how she kept herself calm amid "panic and chaos and an insane crowd" on a railway bridge at Elphinstone station after just a 20-minute rain. When she somehow managed to come out, she saw bodies.
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Mumbai Stampede After 4 Trains Came At Same Time, Says Official: 10 Facts
22 people have been killed and over 30 seriously injured in a stampede that broke out in Mumbai this morning during peak office hours on a bridge linking two suburban train stations. The incident took place at around 10:30 am on the foot over-bridge linking Elphinstone Road and Parel suburban stations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took note of the...
